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Sweating sickness   /swˈɛtɪŋ sˈɪknəs/   Listen
Sweating sickness

noun
1.
A disease of cattle (especially calves).
2.
Epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality.  Synonym: miliary fever.





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"Sweating sickness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Duke of Suffolk, died of the sweating sickness then prevalent in the University, on the 16th July, 1551, while a student of Cambridge. His brother, Lord Charles Brandon, died on the same day. Their removal to Buckden was too late to save them (Ath. Cant., i. 105, 541). Of them Ascham says, 'two noble Primeroses of Nobilitie, the yong Duke ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various


Words linked to "Sweating sickness" :   animal disease, infectious disease


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